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1. Bots controlling the markets
2. The number of adverts on ATR
3. Bookmakers that base their prices on the exchanges
4. Betfair CS
5. Rip-off racecourses
6. Jockeys/trainers fixing races
7. Affordability checks
8. Being banned from bookmakers for 'trying' to win
9. Bookmakers stealing money from dormant accounts and denying it
10. Live TV pictures upto 8 seconds behind real time
What are yours?
2. The number of adverts on ATR
3. Bookmakers that base their prices on the exchanges
4. Betfair CS
5. Rip-off racecourses
6. Jockeys/trainers fixing races
7. Affordability checks
8. Being banned from bookmakers for 'trying' to win
9. Bookmakers stealing money from dormant accounts and denying it
10. Live TV pictures upto 8 seconds behind real time
What are yours?
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I was going to…..back it
I should have had more on……said the moron…. |
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Punters blaming the jockey for every beaten fav as opposed to realizing they just may have backed the wrong horse.
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Oli Bell.
Chamberlin. And they're enough to be going on with. |
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Off course bookmakers x 8
Jockeys not pulling up (NH) when horse is obviously tired with no chance of placing Exchange Bots |
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Missing out obstacles due to the sun. Change the race times or move the obstacles. The sun has risen and set at the same time on any given date for 10,000 years and more.
Races late off. Any horse not at the start 5 minutes before the off fined, only 2 attempts to load before being withdrawn.That would soon sort it. not sure why bookmakers should not base their prices on the exchanges. They have always based them on weight of money either in the shops, on course or from their credit customers. What is the difference? |
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Trainers that can't train horses to run consistently. So Twiston-Davies and V. Williams over NH, (thank god M. Johnson has retired!).
The last 30secs of an Irish race commentary by that commentator. Low class races all weather racing. |
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Irish handicaps (I don't bet in them) Pure Sirloin rated 30 on RPR last twice when at 20/1 and 66/1. Won today at 7/1! If they can cheat the British handicapper they can cheat the Irish one.
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Storm Alert, I agree about the Irish commentator. He sounds as if he has a mouthful of treacle.
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Stall handlers pushing, shoving, lifting a class 6 rag for 5 minutes to get in in the starting stalls, with a hood over its head and the jockey pulling its tail forward, that is running in blinkers, that has never/will never win a race. Horse clearly not up for it, and sadly the owner(s)/trainer(s) put it up.
BHA always promoting welfare, but they allow this to go on day after day. I'm not a woke by any means, just a caring person. Maybe someone with better knowledge will say that the horse is not suffering, but, whatever, it does not look good, and, furthermore, I don't understand what an owner(s) get out of it, especially with what it must be costing them every week/month. All done in the best interests of providing betting fodder for the bookmaking industry lol |
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Kate Harrington being allowed to speak on Tv, ditto Josh Apiafi on the other channel. Any longer than 30 minutes between races. Trainers whose horses won't go into the stalls. Jumps missed due to low winter sun the worst thing of all if you've backed a good jumper. All jockeys who won't ride out for a place. Jamie Spencer full stop. Jockeys who go wide losing ground. Jockeys who get half lengthed at a fence then horse duly makes a mistake more often than not. Trainers who don't have their horses fit first time.
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Posters who believe everything that's bad in racing only happens in Ireland
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When I am at the track and a horse is fatally injured. Always brings a tear to my eye and puts a downer on the whole day for me and always has done. It's bad enough seeing it on the tele....but being there is so much worse.
Yes I know it is part of the sport and the vast majority have a wonderful life up to that point... but it doesn't make it any easier for me to accept. It goes without saying any seriously injured jockey as well. |
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STEWARDS - Especially in the UK. I suspect some are corrupt and at best there is no consistency!
How many times have we seen the second horse absolutely mugged by the 'winner' and gets to keep the race because the distance was more that a short head. At best most of them are amateur idiots. |
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STEWARDS - Especially in the UK. I suspect some are corrupt and at best there is no consistency!
How many times have we seen the second horse absolutely mugged by the 'winner' and gets to keep the race because the distance was more that a short head. At best most of them are amateur idiots. |
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Minimal or no variation between on-course bookmakers' prices. Ridiculous prices for junk food on racecourses.
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Trainers who have obviously not bothered to train a horse to enter stalls, then entering their horse into a race where it will need to go into a stall simply and safely...potentially cruel as well as negligent. Linked, why nothing is ever done to fine or chastise the trainer for this problem.
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Pissed twats who cheer when a horse falls
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Pissed twats who cheer when a horse falls
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Trainers who send an unfit horse to run….
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Jockeys holding horses up so far back thinking they are on Pegasus.
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Jockeys holding horses up then complaining there was no pace.
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Ugly birds working the bars, I remember when they were all as fit as fcuk.
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Or worse, trainers who run a horse in a race at Perth where it finishes clearly distressed after a close fought finish, then travel it down to Ludlow overnight where it runs the next day, incredibly, and it breaks down. A champion trainer did that way back in the late eighties. Disgusting.
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DG if you drink more that starts to happen...
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I backed my nap which won
And ended up losing a monkey……ffs |
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Fat bookies.
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Bookmakers and bots.
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i hate racecourses that never have a Watch,Clock,Chronometer,or Sundial,
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Bookmaker sponsored trainers, Skelton and his Ladbrokes Barbour springs to mind.
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Agreed Slippy
Most unedifying. |
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Horses running loose causing some lengthy delays whilst chasers perform semaphore without the flags
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How did Skelton get on with his court case, the one where the owner felt he had been diddled into selling a good horse cheaply to a Dan friend?
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The Shergar Cup.
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1. Matt Chapman
2. Matt Chapman 3. Matt Chapman 4. Matt Chapman 5. Matt Chapman 6. Matt Chapman 7. Matt Chapman 8. Matt Chapman 9. Boom 10. Yeee Haaa |
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Watching live stream of races from certain tracks and going into final furlong/approaching final flight thinking my selection has half a chance only to glance at the exchange market where my nag is 999/1
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Interviewing winners whilst still on the horse/course, poxy ITV!!!
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TM
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Stables with runners and comments like , only of interest if the money comes.
The gravy train media passengers saying feck all about the failures in racing. The Pitman's Derby run on a beach. The watering down of the festival. The pony sized Aintree fences. Pathetic limitation on bets online(some much worse than others). The Opening Line .....hapless. ITV showing earlier races....and giving the result , instead of showing the last couple of furlongs with commentary. Racing Leagues. And of course Affordability terrorism. |
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The prices on the rails.
You get better prices on the tote or online. |